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<title> Advanced Pointer Tutorial</title>

<shortdesc>This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions and sample

code to help you write applications using advanced pointers. </shortdesc>

<prolog>

<metadata><keywords></keywords></metadata>

</prolog>

<conbody>

<p> <b>Variant</b>: <xref

href="GUID-D93978BE-11A3-5CE3-B110-1DEAA5AD566C.dita">ScreenPlay</xref

>. <b>Target audience</b>: Application developers. </p>

<section><title>Required background </title> <p>This topic builds

on the material in the following topics: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-C4209FBD-3860-5F4B-8458-87D22D483953"><p><xref

href="GUID-9C269F45-F160-5A4B-ABF8-896D2A538E3B.dita">Advanced Pointer

Overview</xref>  </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-9D3C3B31-F43A-5201-A1EC-A1F2848CFF43"><p><xref

href="GUID-9AD75103-CD56-5279-B639-5CA2BBF979B5.dita">Advanced Pointer

States and Event Communication</xref>  </p> </li>

</ul> </section>

<section><title>Using advanced pointers</title> <p>This topic covers

the following: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-C3AD43AA-09C0-5BA2-8496-5B87D40C89F5"><p><xref

href="GUID-C60DC070-572B-5960-B394-550426FDB909.dita#GUID-C60DC070-572B-5960-B394-550426FDB909/GUID-8CBE862B-0C1D-5088-89B7-9B3EC898E4FC"

>Enabling multiple pointers for a window</xref>  </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-177323F2-55C6-56D9-B3D2-A8DDACF69E10"><p><xref

href="GUID-C60DC070-572B-5960-B394-550426FDB909.dita#GUID-C60DC070-572B-5960-B394-550426FDB909/GUID-C026DAB9-C11C-5D29-A1EA-6730E914250F"

>Getting Z coordinates from TPointerEvent</xref>  </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-91CEA92C-A692-5853-96F0-625A76B7DC8D"><p><xref

href="GUID-C60DC070-572B-5960-B394-550426FDB909.dita#GUID-C60DC070-572B-5960-B394-550426FDB909/GUID-B7057F69-191F-5AA4-8C61-EBECE66D92F6"

> Pinch zooming</xref>  </p> </li>

</ul> </section>

<section id="GUID-8CBE862B-0C1D-5088-89B7-9B3EC898E4FC"><title>Enabling

multiple pointers in a window</title> <ol

id="GUID-210D17A8-4869-5F9B-B71C-672101AC591C">

<li id="GUID-81A2AC5C-7837-5216-8F47-FC5959C27522"><p> <xref

href="GUID-637F82AF-0CF9-3C85-834D-7C1A0866DF87.dita"><apiname>RWindow</apiname

></xref> provides a handle to a standard window. Call <codeph>RWindow</codeph

> to create an instance of a window. </p> <codeblock

id="GUID-0E31C3F6-3719-5F16-9F74-C405850604B8" xml:space="preserve"

>

RWindow window(ws);

User::LeaveIfError(window.Construct(wg, reinterpret_cast<TUint32>(&wg) + 1));

</codeblock> </li>

<li id="GUID-B67D3702-1A8F-5C6A-AB0F-FEA7C4D04A07"><p>Call <xref

href="GUID-683603DD-F3D3-3193-BEB3-8236C7DE7F79.dita#GUID-683603DD-F3D3-3193-BEB3-8236C7DE7F79/GUID-05293539-F1B0-3C7D-BB14-3FD42F23D5C8"

><apiname>RWindow::EnableAdvancedPointers()</apiname></xref> to enable

advanced pointers. Then call <xref

href="GUID-1460DD8F-9AA1-3B99-8FFD-F309959CCA34.dita#GUID-1460DD8F-9AA1-3B99-8FFD-F309959CCA34/GUID-4E02165A-DFCC-3D18-BB18-18726B28E90A"

><apiname>RWindowBase::Activate()</apiname></xref> to display the

window and enable the window to receive events. <xref

href="GUID-683603DD-F3D3-3193-BEB3-8236C7DE7F79.dita"><apiname>RWindow</apiname

></xref> inherits from <xref

href="GUID-1460DD8F-9AA1-3B99-8FFD-F309959CCA34.dita"><apiname>RWindowBase</apiname

></xref>, so you can call the <codeph>Activate()</codeph> function

on <codeph>RWindow</codeph>. </p> <codeblock

id="GUID-DB2FB570-2BB0-5C5F-9E4F-076D6A0E469E" xml:space="preserve"

>

window.EnableAdvancedPointers();

window.Activate();

</codeblock> <p>When an application needs to receive advanced pointer

events in a window, it must call <codeph>RWindowBase::EnableAdvancedPointers()</codeph

> for the window <i>before</i> it is activated. </p> <p>If advanced

pointers are not enabled for a window, it receives only standard <xref

href="GUID-1FFA0073-3D83-388E-A824-08C31F90CC54.dita"><apiname>TPointerEvent</apiname

></xref> information from a single pointer with no pressure and proximity

data. The single pointer environment rules describe the way in which

pointer events coming from many pointers in the multiple pointer model

are transformed into events of one pointer. They are necessary to

ensure that old single-pointer applications work in a multiple pointer

environment <?Pub Caret?> intuitively and as expected by the user. </p

> <p>However, the new <codeph>TPointerEvent</codeph> types, <xref

href="GUID-239D0A8B-2759-321D-AD48-976E80192239.dita"><apiname>EEnterCloseProximity</apiname

></xref>, <xref href="GUID-8C6264B4-5E19-33A7-92B0-BB79C871BEC7.dita"

><apiname>EExitCloseProximity</apiname></xref>, <xref

href="GUID-F02DB96E-1541-3223-9B7B-79D45840DB7B.dita"><apiname>EEnterHighPressure</apiname

></xref> and <xref href="GUID-15B5991C-B075-3110-B0A4-540EC282AA56.dita"

><apiname>EExitHighPressure</apiname></xref>, are delivered to all

windows, even to those that do not enable advanced pointers. </p> </li>

</ol> </section>

<section id="GUID-C026DAB9-C11C-5D29-A1EA-6730E914250F"><title>Getting

Z coordinates from TPointerEvent</title> <ol

id="GUID-4CC2271D-1798-51B3-9A9D-E7E0B9A33DAE">

<li id="GUID-184B5B63-4EFC-55CD-8D1F-E015EEBACBE2"><p>Call <xref

href="GUID-1FFA0073-3D83-388E-A824-08C31F90CC54.dita#GUID-1FFA0073-3D83-388E-A824-08C31F90CC54/GUID-E961DA4D-AD38-31F0-88DD-A07D36346DCB"

><apiname>TPointerEvent::AdvancedPointerEvent()</apiname></xref> on

a <codeph>TPointerEvent</codeph> to return a pointer to a <xref

href="GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023.dita"><apiname>TAdvancedPointerEvent</apiname

></xref>. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-6E81680A-3070-546B-B575-49EA9E34FAF9"

xml:space="preserve">

TZType aZType;

TPointerEvent& aPointerEvent;

TInt* aZ; 

TInt* aPoint3D;

TAdvancedPointerEvent *advancedP = aPointerEvent.AdvancedPointerEvent();

</codeblock> <p> <codeph>TPointerEvent</codeph> is a struct that contains

details of a pointer event. <codeph>TZType</codeph> is a struct provided

by the programmer containing members to hold proximity, pressure,

and "proximity and pressure" data. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-ABA8FA09-5F57-51BC-8CAE-43649B5ED6D3"><p>Now we need

to test whether the pointer event contains advanced pointer data.

If it is not an advanced pointer, the code leaves. </p> <p>If it is

an advanced pointer, we call functions to detect proximity, pressure,

"proximity and pressure" data and coordinates. </p> <codeblock

id="GUID-DF109643-2564-51A0-B0F6-33BF4DA1F6E3" xml:space="preserve"

>

if(!advancedP)

    {

    // The TPointerEvent isn't an instance of TAdvancedPointerEvent

    User::Leave(KErrArgument);

    }

switch(aZType)

    {

    case EZTypeProximity:

        aZ = advancedP->Proximity();

        aPoint3D = advancedP->Proximity3D(); 

        break;

    case EZTypePressure:

        aZ = advancedP->Pressure();

        aPoint3D = advancedP->Pressure3D();

        break;

    case EZTypeProximityAndPressure:

        aZ = advancedP->ProximityAndPressure();

        aPoint3D = advancedP->ProximityAndPressure3D();

        break;

    default: 

        User::Leave(KErrArgument);

        break;

    }

</codeblock> <ul>

<li id="GUID-40C01884-AC86-5882-935D-2EC2E27C9004"><p> <xref

href="GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023.dita#GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023/GUID-0ED4B1CC-0655-3246-8645-AAC9E0C27298"

><apiname>TAdvancedPointerEvent::Proximity()</apiname></xref> returns

the proximity. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-16A9A86B-A837-5E43-BB3A-F5A04A7F4552"><p> <xref

href="GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023.dita#GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023/GUID-15DEBFBF-7B7D-3FCF-9929-C973824A5FD3"

><apiname>TAdvancedPointerEvent::Pressure()</apiname></xref> returns

the pressure. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-3E614890-C317-596E-A5B9-FD76426DBD12"><p> <xref

href="GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023.dita#GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023/GUID-114AE77E-D0BD-321E-BFCB-1388B35582EC"

><apiname>TAdvancedPointerEvent::ProximityAndPressure()</apiname></xref

> returns the proximity and pressure combined. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-6F62C0D1-FAE4-5F8F-B451-68ABA404A369"><p> <xref

href="GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023.dita#GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023/GUID-E5AA7737-D217-3FDE-9E4D-AAA7F5D2C300"

><apiname>TAdvancedPointerEvent:: Position3D()</apiname></xref> returns

the proximity and the X, Y and Z coordinates. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-5AD1811D-BCBF-5A44-B6E7-EB71BF254BCA"><p> <xref

href="GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023.dita#GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023/GUID-2F30A8F5-75BA-3FE3-84B7-3C772ED75857"

><apiname>TAdvancedPointerEvent::Pressure3D()</apiname></xref> returns

the pressure and the X and Y coordinates. </p> </li>

</ul> <p>Proximity is <i>always</i> negative and pressure is <i>always</i

> positive. Internally they are combined together as a Z coordinate.

When Z > 0, the proximity is 0 and the Z value represents the pressure.

When Z < 0, the pressure is 0 and the Z value represents the proximity.

Some APIs use only a Z coordinate (such as the threshold getters and

setters and <xref

href="GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023.dita#GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023/GUID-114AE77E-D0BD-321E-BFCB-1388B35582EC"

><apiname>TAdvancedPointerEvent::ProximityAndPressure()</apiname></xref

>). In these, the Z coordinate is interpreted in terms of pressure

and proximity. </p> </li>

</ol> <fig id="GUID-7A49B143-5458-5916-B937-55D98B77BB2C">

<title> Relationships between the pointer proximity, pressure and

Z              coordinate            </title>

<image

href="GUID-1A0FB98B-8DB3-5067-9B71-FF838F6AE402_d0e193926_href.png"

placement="inline"></image></fig> </section>

<section id="GUID-B7057F69-191F-5AA4-8C61-EBECE66D92F6"><title>Pinch

zooming</title> <p>This example shows an easy way to pinch zoom an

image when the screen receives pointer events from two pointers. There

are two functions in this code that must be implemented by the programmer: <codeph

>BitmapCoordinates()</codeph> and <codeph>MoveBitmap()</codeph>. They

are not included in the example because they involve complex calculations

that are not related to advanced pointers. </p> <p>The high-level

steps to perform pinch zooming are: </p> <ol

id="GUID-AEF3917C-AAFE-5C25-9609-396D08478AC0">

<li id="GUID-7839E665-C4E1-59C8-BA89-22A62615EFA3"><p>Define the coordinates,

equivalent to the given on-screen coordinates. In the code example,

this is done using the function <codeph>BitmapCoordinates()</codeph

>. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-FC4B1BDA-8120-53C9-9C88-BEFEF1AD54B4"><p>Define the ID

of the pointer by using <xref

href="GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023.dita#GUID-FADA3278-FF8B-308F-90AD-3DCF8911A023/GUID-67593D7E-CE40-303F-B847-81D6FC0578B1"

><apiname>TAdvancedPointerEvent::PointerNumber()</apiname></xref>.

If the device can handle two pointers (two fingers) at the same time,

their numbers are 0 and 1. The pointer number enables you to distinguish

a given pointer from other pointers. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-1E8F7D23-EEAD-5EA5-8863-276076D6B54E"><p>For each pointer

assign its coordinates to a local variable. We assume there are only

two pointers handled by the system here. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-E44B3D9B-560A-5959-996D-A63CBD4C3786"><p>Use the <codeph

>MoveBitmap()</codeph> function to achieve the zoom effect. </p> <codeblock

id="GUID-D85CCFDD-8F65-530A-ACD7-93DD1D435FC6" xml:space="preserve"

>

/**

Receives pointer events from two pointers to perform Pinch Zoom of the image.

Function will finish when EButton1Up is received for any of the pointers.

@param aPointer1    Coordinates of pointer number 1 when zoom is started

@param aPointer2    Coordinates of pointer number 2 when zoom is started

*/

void PinchZoom(TPoint aPointer1, TPoint aPointer2)

    {

    TPoint actualP1 = aPointer1;

    TPoint actualP2 = aPointer2;

    // translate on-screen pointer coordinates to coordinates of displayed bitmap

    TPoint bitmapCatching1 = BitmapCoordinates(aPointer1);

    TPoint bitmapCatching2 = BitmapCoordinates(aPointer2);

    TBool repaint = EFalse;

    while (ETrue)

        {

        TAdvancedPointerEvent event = GetNextPointerEvent();

        if (event.iType == TPointerEvent::EDrag)

            { 

            if (event.PointerNumber() == 1)

                { 

                actualP1 = event.iPosition;

                repaint = ETrue;

                }

            else if (event.PointerNumber() == 2)

                {

                actualP2 = event.iPosition;

                repaint = ETrue;

                }

            }

        else if (event.iType == TPointerEvent::EButton1Up)

            {

            break;

            }

        if (repaint)

            {

            // move bitmap on the screen in the way that

            // bitmapCatching1 point of the bitmap will be displayed at actualP1 screen coordinate,

            // bitmapCatching2 point of the bitmap will be displayed at actualP2 screen coordinate.

            MoveBitmap(bitmapCatching1, actualP1, bitmapCatching2, actualP2);

            repaint = EFalse;

            }

        }

    }

</codeblock> </li>

</ol> </section>

</conbody>

<related-links>

<link href="GUID-9C269F45-F160-5A4B-ABF8-896D2A538E3B.dita"><linktext

>Advanced Pointer                 Overview</linktext></link>

<link href="GUID-9AD75103-CD56-5279-B639-5CA2BBF979B5.dita"><linktext

>Advanced Pointer States and                 Event Communication</linktext>

</link>

</related-links>

</concept>

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